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“a game that will truly test your mettle as a gamer”
75/100 - GameZone

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War of the Roses: Kingmaker is a team based third person action game set in 15th century England. Two rival branches of the Royal House of Plantagenet - the house of Lancaster (the reds) and the house of York (the whites) – fight over the throne, and the player is thrown into the fray.

War of the Roses: Kingmaker arms players with a wide variety of arsenal and armor from the Knights Hospitaller, Gallowglass Mercenary, Winter Has Arrived, and Outside the Law updates. Three new maps and two additional gameplay modes, including the Assault Mode released specifically for this version of the multiplayer action title are also included. War of the Roses: Kingmaker will separate the nobles from the rabble and put knights on the fast-track to glory, ready to fight and die for York or Lancaster – and go down in history as true heroes.

Key Features:

Choose Your Gear – Make your selection from over 30 authentic weapons across 10 weapon categories with your choice of blade type and metal type. More than a dozen customizable helmets and various armor types to choose from. Even create your own coat of arms with near limitless combinations as you choose your division, ordinary, charge, and crest.

Design Your Coat of Arms – Show your allegiance, or just design something cool in the extensive Coat of Arms editor with millions of possible combinations.

Groundbreaking Mounted Gameplay - Melee combat will never be the same, mount up and experience new tactical and visceral thrills.

Train to be the Ultimate Knight - Experience a deep leveling system as you rise through the ranks, gain weapons, gear, and much more.

Expand the Mass Devastation – Take the up to 64 player competition to the next level on two additional modes, Pitched Battle & Assault! These bring the grand scale of war to the next level and challenge the most harden Knights!

It has rather steep learning curve but melee is very colorful and deep. The way you have to use every aspect of your weapons(for example pollaxe has cutting, crushing and stabby parts) depending on how heavily armored the opponent is and where you aim. Visors on the helmets obstruct your view but give you better chance to survive that slash to the face, helmets without visors protect your head from sides, back and top but leave your face unprotected, half-plate has good protection for your torso but leaves little to no protection to your arms and legs, chainmail protects only good against slashes or some weaker piercing strikes but give you better mobility, the list goes on. Squad-Leaders get tactical perks to buff yourself and your team-mates for short period of time and tagging ability so you can mark that annoying, bush-dwelling sharpshooter for your comrades for little extra points when they chop off his/her head. Also they work as mobile spawn points, as long as the squad-leader isn't being directly attacked.

Microtransactions give you instant access to some prettier versions of gear and extragavant dyes, but none of them cost more than you could get in couple hours of frantic shield-bashing and eye-gouging. Only minuses I could think of are very small ammount of maps and unpolished spawning system where you sometimes try to spawn on your squad-leader and instead spawn outside map boundaries or in the middle of frantic melee.

I was skeptical at first because most medieval combat games such as this (Age of chivlary, etc.) are not that great. This game really blew me away though. Great graphics, cool customization, runs well, and fun!

Well when some dude wearing light to no armor and comes at a fully armored knight and kills him in one swing with a wooden pitchfork, it makes perfect sence.

They even ended development of this and War of the Vikings because they were so lazy with fixing problems and not even giving any incentive and never minding what this game is actually like for players.

Another thing that dosnt make any sence at all is that in this game, all you have to do to get points fast is just get light armor and an OP one handed weapon and just spam everyone you meet. Yep. Just like the medieval age.

Also, if you happen to live in the US i feel really sorry for you. Why? Because theres only 3, yes, 3 servers that are US hosted and are packed at almost every hour of the day. BUT if you live in the UK or EU in general, CONGRATS! cause theres plenty of servers to join with alot of space and players daily!

This game has no ryme or reason to still cost $19.99, its a compelete waste of money. This ABOMINATION needs to be buried and forgotten. It had a good image of being innovative, but once you make a wooden pitchfork the most OP weapon in the game, you ♥♥♥♥ed it up... bad...

Seriously, DONT BUY THIS GAME. ITS A SCAM MADE BY FAT SHARK AND PARODOX TO FILL THEIR WALLETS WITH YOUR HARD EARNED CASH.

Medieval combat with a ferociously steep learning curve; 'War of the Roses: Kingmaker' brings a similar game-style to Mount & Blade while vastly improving on what was a grand template already.

Pitching yourself in battle, there's a huge amount of authenticity and splendor you get while charging through a field with around 25 other players around you. With many weapon choices, each one unique and different to handle, there's plenty within the game to enjoy. Strikes feel viscious and you genuinely feel as if it's your mouse alone making the cuts of your enemy run deep.

In comparison to the more arcade-feel of 'Chivalry: Medieval Warfare', War of the Roses is a realistic battle-simulator, however, that being said: it's definitely a game and by all means it's completely awesome.

Great game. Tough, attractive, lively.Do not look at the video, there is not transferred to the whole point of the game.Great game for fans of the knights, and especially those who love to play for the archers.

This is a really fun game to play and it has real good grahics and it is a really fun game to play, there is only 1 map that I don't like and the rest are good and fun to play on. It has lots of types of classes and also custom clases and you can ride horses.